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Iraq

Kirkuk police come under attack by members of the Turkmen Front

2021-05-07

[Rudaw] The head of Iraq’s Security Media Cell on Thursday said the rule of law should prevail following what he describes as an attack on police by members of the Turkmen Front

...the Iraqi Turkmen Front is the political wing of Iraq’s Turkmen independence movement, formally founded as a confederation of Iraq’s Turkmen political parties in 1995, and functionally a Turkish sock puppet. They claim northern Iraq, particularly Kirkuk province, as their native land of Turkmeneli, an effort frustrated by the refusal of both the Kurdistan government and the Iraqi government to allow them to form local militias. They have three seats in Iraq’s parliament, which no doubt makes them feel better but isn’t enough to get their concerns a hearing...

in Kirkuk the night before.

Videos circulating on social media appear to show several people, who were later declared to be members of the Turkmen Front, fighting with police at a checkpoint in Kirkuk governorate on Wednesday night. Saad Maan, the Head of Iraq’s Security Media Cell, on Thursday said orders were issued to arrest the perpetrators.

"The orders were issued to implement the law and arrest the people who assaulted the emergency patrol and refer them to the judiciary in order to receive a fair penalty," Iraq’s Security Media Cell said on their Telegram channel on Thursday.

The arrest warrant was issued "based on what circulated on social media from a video clip showing the attack of a member of the Turkmen Front in Kirkuk against a rescue patrol carrying out its duties and tasks in the governorate," the statement added.

General security is deteriorating in Kirkuk. Previously under Kurdish control, the province and its oilfields fell back under federal government control after the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) failed independence referendum in 2017.

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